Apple has decided that Twitterers will henceforth be able to access profanity via the iPhones and iPod touch, Cnet reports.
The company intially declined to offer application Tweetie 1.3 in its App Store because it allows access to "Twitter Trends", which excitingly "displays the most frequent topics or words on Twitter at any …

Twwetie?

Don't know about Tweetie, because I've not tried it. I have, however, had an app called "Twitter Trend" on my iPhone for several weeks now, and it displays, you guessed it, Twitter trends. And it's free.

Don't get too excited, though. Not only have I never seen the F word on it (although I must confess that I don't look at the app very often), not even the A word, but if you're looking for something interesting, you're going to be sadly disappointed. As i write, these are the top few entries on the "Hot" list:

American Idol

app store

Blogs Losing Chris Brown

full moon

Happy Holi (sic)

iPhone app

iPod Touch

Jimmy Fallon

Jon Stewart

Mind-boggling stuff, I'm sure. And it doesn't get any better, believe me.

"Young...and working out the kinks..."

Of course it should have been allowed in the first place

"must not contain any obscene..."

It's doesn't contain the profanity, it just provides access to a site that displays them.

Not that I have an iPhone or use Twiiter, but it's a really bad idea to have a company censoring software for their devices. Can you imagine the outcry if Dell / Microsoft said that you're not allowed to install Firefox or OpenOffice. And some people think Apple is a cool company even though it behaves like this.